There are only four books in the main series, and none of them are too terribly long. But if you’re a completist, there’s no limit to how deep you can dive into what the author called his "legendarium.

The War of the Rohirrim takes place about 250 years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, during the reign of Helm Hammerhand, king of Rohan. Or, to give you another kind of perspective on things: Helm’s Deep, the massive mountain fortress where the climax of Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers takes place? That’s named after Helm.

The War of the Rohirrim had its world premiere in London last night, and the first social media reactions to the animated film are now

And as we saw with the release of The Rings of Power Amazon Prime series, which is also painting in the margins of Tolkien’s famous works, there’s also an element of fandom who come out hard against a franchise if they don’t like the way certain elements,

Mordor's influence creeps into The War of the Rohirrim during the film's prolonged siege sequence, when the people of Rohan are trapped in the fortress of Hornburg. Helm's daughte

It’s not strange that The Lord of the Rings is receiving the animation treatment—after all, J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy was initially mainstreamed by Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 film, which established many of the visual designs that now define the material and heavily influenced Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy.

The War of the Rohirrim is now the third movie in the overall film franchise with a Rotten status on Rotten Tomatoes.